California Thematic Unit Planning with ThinkCERCA: ELA

ThinkCERCA offers a wide variety of lessons expertly aligned to the California Common Core ELA Standards. These lessons include differentiated sets of applied writing lessons—based on both informational and literary texts—as well as direct instruction lessons to introduce or review key literacy concepts with your students. The following English language arts sets and lessons are organized by theme for quick inclusion into units and address a key question for collaborative discussion and debate: